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The Louisiana Supreme Court has entered an order of interim suspension of an attorney recently convicted in a tax fraud case. This report from Chicago Breaking Business provides details concerning the criminal case:

[The attorney] started selling the tax shelters while he was employed at
Chicago-based Bank One between 1999 and 2002, before it was acquired by
JPMorgan Chase & Co. The shelter was called Homer, for the character
in “The Simpsons.”

He was part of a scheme to fraudulently obtain referral fees.
[A] Louisiana attorney...also was convicted on the conspiracy
charge.

The shelters were aimed at wealthy clients of the bank and Jenkens
& Gilchrist, a national law firm that went out of business in 2007
after settling civil and criminal investigations related to the bogus
tax shelters. [The attorney] continued selling the shelters after leaving the bank
and forming his own company, Chicago-based Dumaine Group LLC.